The Alan Jonestown Massacre

[ataxi]

Link (to Philip Adams op-ed piece)

Saw this on Media Watch last night as well. In brief:

• ABC Enterprises sets down $100,000 of funding for Chris Masters (Four Corners reporter) to write an unauthorised biography of Alan Jones.
• After four years of (supposedly "meticulous") work, Masters completes the book.
• Alan Jones' associates get hold of

Comments

[loic]

How about somebody breaks the ice by publishing a pamphlet saying simply: "ALAN JONES IS A FLAMING FAIRY FAG" with his photo from when he was arrested in a public bathroom in the west end of London. Would it be okay to publish the book then or is there some other truth they're afraid of. Its already a matter of public record that he's for sale.

[ataxi]

*grin*

I'm sure not-proper bug reports are irritating, but Flock 0.7.1 tends to crash on close for me at the moment. Memory leak?

[loic]

ooh - interesting. That's not good. What platform are you on?

[ataxi]

win32 (XP Pro SP2). Haven't narrowed it down, my best guess so far is that it might occur when I connect to the work VPN and then dc while it's running. But to be honest I have no idea. Doesn't happen with latest Firefox though.

It doesn't stop me using it, since it only ever occurs after I've closed the browser, as mentioned.

[loic]

hmm - weird. I'm not sure what that is. If you log a bug at bugzilla.flock.com we might be able to reproduce it, but I'm not sure what the best way to get stack traces and stuff in windows is.

[ataxi]

I'll see if I can pay a bit more attention next time it happens. My box is an old install crammed with tools both installed and incorrectly uninstalled, so it could just be a case of rotting Windows. Cheers.

[loic]

ideally we'd be able to handle the very common case of a rotting windows install better :)